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1) Le Doulos
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Just out of prison, Maurice (Serge Reggiani) murders a man and steals the loot of a break-in. Preparing another heist, he asks his friend Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) for help. But Silien is an informer and warns the police; Maurice is wounded. Furious, he seeks revenge. Nominated for Best Film at the **Mar del Plata Film Festival.** *"As good as Melville's setups are, the joys of the movie keep returning to Belmondo, then and now the king of effortless...
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the bleak, storm-tossed southern tip of South America, a lonely lighthouse guards the world's most treacherous, and lucrative, shipping lane. However, beyond the forces of nature, the lighthouse keepers must also face an even more formidable foe, and soon the turbulent waters become the bloody battleground of two men who fight for control of the cruel Cape Horn and the pleasures of a helpless, shipwrecked beauty.
4) Coming home
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.
5) Elmer Gantry
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
6) Gorky Park
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Ga
Description
When three murder victims are discovered in Moscow's Gorky Park, their faces and fingertips removed, detective Arkady Renko is determined to identify the bodies and find the killer. But as a picture of the victims takes shape, the clues point toward involvement not only of the KGB but also of the woman he loves, Irina.
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the...
9) Marty
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marty is a nice guy, living with his mother in the Bronx, hanging around with similarly socially inept friends, dreaming of owning his own butcher's shop, and maybe even finding a girl to love. The people around him don't think Marty will make anything more of himself than he already has -- life is comfortable, why would Marty want to change? But when Marty meets Clara, a schoolteacher with similar aspirations, Marty is motivated to do remarkable...
10) On the beach
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of survivors attempt to live normal lives in post-apocalyptic Australia, waiting for the inevitable arrival of killer radiation.
11) Pitfall
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has robbed a store insured by Forbes' company and has showered her with gifts using the loot. Forbes comes to collect the ill-gotten gifts, but the boyfriend is in jail, and Forbes falls hard for Mona and begins an affair.
13) Taras bulba
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the sixteenth century, the film chronicles the bloody Polish revolution against the Cossacks, who were led by the brazen, barbaric Taras Bulba. Bulba must contend with his wayward son Andrel.
14) The unforgiven
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A family on the frontier adopts a young girl, but the Indians claim that the girl is one of them, and they want her back.
15) White lightning
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married lover is accused of the crime. His only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife, proving his alibi. However, she has some secrets of her own to reveal.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder. One sleepless night, Cheryl Draper witnesses a young woman being strangled to death in an apartment across the street. She reports the killing to the police, but when the police arrive there's no body to be found. The policemen are convinced the Cheryl probably dreamt the murder and leave ignoring her pleas.
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Dick Dudgeon learns his father was executed by the British for treason at the onset of the Revolutionary War, he steals the body for a proper burial, ignoring the pleas of his friend, Minister Anthony Anderson who's a peace-loving person who ends up becoming a belligerent firebrand of a rebel trying to save Dudgeon's life.
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert.
A traveler is pressured into building a chapel for a group of refugee nuns.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a sightseeing Soviet commander runs his submarine aground off the New England coast, his crew attempts to find a boat to dislodge the sub almost starts World War III. Russian Lt. Rozanov and his crew hit the beaches of Massachusetts unaware of the panic they're about to start. Despite the Russians' harmless intentions, the folks in town think a full-scale Soviet invasion has been launched! What's worse, their police chief has left his hysterical...
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